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Company Offering $10K for a 30 Day Phone Detox, Apply Now

Tech.Co

There are just five days left to enter the digital detox competition set up by Icelandic Yogurt company Siggi’s Dairy, which has pledged to give selected contestants $10,000 to spend an entire month “detoxing” without a smartphone or social media. You’ll then be taken through to an online form. Should I Digitally Detox Anyway?

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8 Entrepreneurship Principles For Anticipating Change

Startup Professionals Musings

Either they are never really ready to commit, study an opportunity until it has passed, or fail with tools and techniques from a bygone business era. The Internet is the source of data for alternative views, and social media allows direct customer interactions to test these views.

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8 Learning Principles To Keep You Ahead Of The Game

Startup Professionals Musings

Either they are never really ready to commit, study an opportunity until it has passed, or fail with tools and techniques from a bygone business era. The Internet is the source of data for alternative views, and social media allows direct customer interactions to test these views.

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The lion and the ant: A managerial lesson

Berkonomics

So the lion recruited a cockroach who had extensive experience as a supervisor and who was famous for writing excellent reports. He also needed a secretary to help him write and type his reports. It was at that time the cicada convinced the boss, The Lion to start a climatic study of the environment.

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6 Reasons Why You Should Jump On The Startup Bandwagon

Tech Zulu Event

For example, a startup may hire you as an accountant, but you may also be asked to do social media marketing content gearing towards finance for the company blog. Now, you’re handling payroll and doing writing as well. You may even discover that you enjoy writing more than crunching numbers. Startups are hiring.

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Here Are the Details About Upfront Ventures’ Newest EIR – @Chamillionaire

Both Sides of the Table

I saw him on stage at the event talking about how he used social media to engage audiences. If you want to get schooled by a guy who’s done it all I suggest watching this video interview I did with him that has already been watched 55,000 times or if you prefer a summary version in writing it’s here.

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What Tech Entrepreneurs Could Learn from Chamillionaire

Both Sides of the Table

I had called on Chamillionaire from the audience and asked him to provide some views on how artists view social media, why they use it and where it’s heading. As a teenager he experimented with writing & producing his own rap music and received a lot of feedback from elders that he had a talent with words.